The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-11

| 1OunQ IL IN 1S4i, Wnen nISL we came
/ here. God has been watching over this
people, and will continue to, so long as
we continue to do our duty. So long as
we humble ourselves before the Lord,
so long as we keep His command
ments, SO long will the hand of God be
over the Latter-day Saints; Zion will
arise; Zion will be clothed upon by
| the power of God. The Lord is watch
ing over her; the heavens have been
| watching over this people, and have
been from the beginning. We have the
blessings of God with US. They are
manifest in our temporal and spiritual
affairs.
Ash said in the beginning of my re-
marks, | realize that the voices of
those we were, accustomed to hear in
the past are flushed in death. We
shall hear them 40 more. The rest OF
US will follow in their train. We
shall all pass away in our time, and we
have long eternity before us in the
world to come Those that have
passed away have closed their work
here and are laboring to-day on the
other side of the vail.
You have had laid before you, dur
ing this Conference, some things per-
tanning to the redemption of Our dead,
and some things in regard TO the build
ing of temples. These, brethren and
sisters, are important works. They
are works which we do for'0tners that
they can not do for themselves. This
is what Jesus Christ did when He laid
down HIS life for our redemption, be-
cause we could not redeem ourselves.
We have fathers and mothers and
kindred IN the spirit world, and we
have WORK to perform in their behalf.
AS an individual [ have had great in-
terest in this work of redeeming the
dead, and so have my brethren and
sisters. This is labor we must con-
tinue as far as we have opportunity.
This principle was taught by the
Apostle Paul. He asks, 'If the dead
rise not at all, why are they then pap
tlsed for the dead?" This is work
that rests upon the Latter-day Saints.
so that when you pass to the
other side of the vail your
fathers, mothers, relatives and friends
will bless you for what you have done,
and inaSmuch as you have been ia
struments in the hands OF God in pro-
curing their redemption you will be
recognized as SaviorS upon Mount
Zion in fulfilment of prophecy.
| hope that our institutions-tho
that have been referred to in our
Epistle-the Relief Societies, Sunday
Schools, Mutual Improvement AsSo
Citations, ETC., will continue to do
good. They have done a great deal of
good, and still have the power to do
more. These institutions belong
to the organizations of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The brethren and sisters should con-
tilue to labor in them in behalf OF the
rising generation of this people. The
Mutual Improvement Associations
are good schools in which to prepare
our young men for the vineyard of
Christ. So also are the various quo
RUNS of the Priesthood, and we should
all labor to the best of our ability to
fulfil the duties devolying upon MS.
feel the effect of my sickness; l feel
it upon my lungs, and do not think it
necessary to continue my remarks. |
am glad to see you, and say God bless
you, and pray that God may pour out
His Spirit upon you, that we may mag
nifty our calling, do our, duty, keep the
commandments of God, SO that when
we get through our work we may be
satisfied with our history.
feel to bless this congregation,
as far as have the right
and privilege to bless, in the name
of he Lord Jesus Christ. The Latter
day Saints have been trying to do their
duty, but there is room for all to i'm
prove; let US walk uprightly and labor
for the truth, and for the inspiration
endeavOr to accomplish. | pray our
Heavenly Father to uphold and sus-
tain you, to bless you and your fami-
lies, to bless you as husbands and
wives and children and as Latter-day
Saints, or any other capacity in which
we are called to act. This is my prayer
in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
APOSTLE HEBER ]. GRANT. .t
1t is very gratifying unto me to have
an opportunity of meeting with so many
of the Latter-day Saints, and while l
stand before you this afternoon l
earnestly pray unto God, my heavenly
Father, for the aid of His holy spirit,
and beseech the Latter day Saints to
give me the benefit of their faith and
prayers, that / may be enabled to say
something that will be calculated to
train us in our desires for the advance
ment of the work of God. l rejoice be-
yOuO NY pONSIS VI cApIcSSlOu dL U6lIS
permitted once more to hear the voice
OF our aged President. rejoice that he
is again permitted to meet with the
Latter-day Saints, and to bear his testi-
mony unto them as to the truth of the
Gospel. 1t must be gratifying to the
hearts of all the Latter day Saints to
look upon his face and to hear his
words. While / am but youth,
and while 1 have not had the
privilege of associating with many
of the brethren that have gone
before; while have never had the riv-
ilege of looking upon the face of my
father even, still rejoice in the labors
that he accomplished, / rejoice in the
testimony that he bore to the Latter
day Saints, rejoice in the heritage that
he has left unto me, and to all his chill
dren. He has left testimony and an
example that, il we will only follow, we
are bound to meet him and rejoice IN
his presence throughout all the count
less ages of eternity. No greater hertz
age can you and l leave to our children
than a good name. and a good
aud faithful testimony to the
gospel of Christ. There is nothing
so dear to me as the gospel that | have
embraced. There is no day ever
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